Selectmen adopted the policy Tuesday night.
The portable orange electronic message sign at Westborough's rotary will promote fewer events from now on. Selectmen voted Tuesday night to adopt a policy Town Manager Jim Malloy developed for the sign's use. Vice Chairman George Barrette said the restrictions are: "to provide information to residents about an emergency situation"; "to provide information to residents about elections or town meeting"; "to notify residents of a one-day service a town department is providing for residents"; "to notify residents of other town-sponsored events deemed appropriate by the town manager"; and "to notify residents of any events as directed by the board of selectmen." Barrette said Public Works Manager John Walden has spent "an awful lot of time and …
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Barrette and Walden to draft policy for its use.
Residents are sending a clear message about Westborough’s “portable sign that we seem to have permanently established down at the rotary,” Selectman George Barrette says. Enough. “Nobody likes it, including me, by the way. I think we’re over-using it,” Barrette told selectmen this past Tuesday night. “It’s a little bit impractical. Nobody looks at it anymore because it’s been there now for six months,” he added. Selectmen lack a clear policy for the sign’s use, he said. For that reason, selectmen directed Barrette, at his request, to work with Department of Public Works Manager John Walden to draft a policy for the board’s consideration in the “very near future.” Barrette said he and Walden would do so “with an eye toward a permanent sign …
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Alyce
4:00 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
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